Venting Your Thoughts and Feelings

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Hey, Terra. You're from the Uk right? What happened?

Yeah, I don't read too much world news, only local stuff. (Although I do know about the spill in the gulf of Mexico and how it's from BP's well which is based in UK if I recall correctly).

(And I'm not too happy with the Federal Conservatives in my country either (Canada). But than again that's probably because of my political slant, so that's nothing new. lol.

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Does sound fairly s----y.

For my part, I detest the Westboro religious group and think the Tea Party group is way off base and taking things too far. Not as far as Westboro, but I wonder if that's even possible. Geez...those...people...

I'm not too familiar with the Westboro group, but I'm well aware of the Tea Party movement, I hear they're a bit more right-wing than the usual Republicans/Conservatives. I remember seeing an image of a protestor holding a sign saying "Impeach The Kenyan", which says a lot to me about how bad it's getting.

The Westboro group does the following (steel yourself):
Protest Homosexuality. )
To do this-- Go to Military funerals. (already they're not making any friends here
Claim that the soldier died because God killed them because he hates homosexuals.

Um. Yeah.

There's SO MUCH wrong with that line of thinking that I can only type "what is this I dont even" a few times.
Let alone the breach of ethics of protesting ANYTHING at a bloody FUNERAL.

I take humor in that there's a biker gang that follows these people around and does their best to bar them from getting anywhere near the funerals when possible. Which is extremely admirable, although it shouldn't have to happen. First ammendment only goes so far and I don't remember it covering being a bunch of $#@^%#@^#%#&@%#&@^#^%$^#&@%#^$&$&s.

I love the people that hunt down the Westboro idiots and actually keep them from getting to the military funerals. Military funerals are heart wrenching. I don't understand how upsetting innocent families has anything to do with sticking it to the government or the Department of Defense.

Wow, that group really do sound like A**holes, particularly that funeral protesting part. Kudos to that Biker Gang for their efforts but you're right, it shouldn't have to happen.

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I'm done with the backloggery and everything that goes along with it.

I've had it with everything.

I'd prefer it if Admin could delete this account as well.

I'm very sorry to hear that. If you would confirm this via PM (with details if you choose), I can either ban your account (unusable, but recoverable in case you might use it later) or delete it permanently.

I'm very surprised to see that, particularly after your recent Apology thread. Well, do what you must. Hope you feel better soon Tony

We all have our own stuff to do, to get on with and eventually we'll move onto newer things, new places and new people, often leaving behind the older stuff such as our friends (Be it friends we see irl or online friends). Sorry to go on, I've been thinking about growing up lately (Thinking about lots of things I guess). Makes me feel sick. I think my problem is that I'm afraid of forgetting, the future, change, just life and death really. The one day at a time approach is how I prefer to think about things, I don't feel so sick then.

Yeah idk what to do anymore.

Very good insight, Terra.

Tony, the only advice I'd give (as your decisions are just that!) is when making big ones, take time before making them. Wait at least a day and see how you feel. Sometimes we rush into things. But sometimes are feelings hold true. Either way, I wish you the best of luck.

@Terra: I know what you mean. Ontario has one of the highest post-secondary education rates (about 5,000 per year in tuition). Sadly, no provincial government, Liberal or Conservative, will touch education with a ten foot pole, so are rates are stuck constantly inflating. Although last time Conservatives were in power, they tried to axe teachers (decrease amount of teachers and increase class room cap) at the elementary and high school levels and that didn't go too well. People got pissed, so pissed they had to back off.

Now the Liberals are in power...but people are pissed at them for the HST (harmonized sales tax), which extends the provincial tax onto other things like gas and services (like haircuts, dry cleaning, plumbing, etc.). Before these things were only federally taxed. Personally, I'm fine with it because that money will probably go either to health care or education.

I'm mostly annoyed at what a**es the Federal Conservatives are turning themselves into. First Harper (our prime minister) ditches the Kyoto Protocol and then his government has the galls to chide China and India (I think it was) at Copenhagen (I also think it was...this was months ago but I recall being pretty annoyed) for polluting the environment (oh the irony!). Then just today, the Conservatives kicked out one MP from their party for flimsy allegations which both the Ethics Board and the Police report were unfounded. I wouldn't be surprised if they did that because she wasn't doing whatever the asked her to and was more true to her own beliefs. *shakes head in disappointment*

@Admin: every country has their crazy group(s) and people eh? What can you do....

@Tony: sorry to hear that. We can still keep in touch via twitter right?

I've been there. Sometimes I refuse to accept reality. The fact that everyone's time will come someday bothered me at some point but a good friend of mine once said that I shouldn't waste my life worrying about that kind of stuff. I should just accept it and move on. It's obviously easier said than done but what other options do we have?

I can't believe it.

All of this could have been avoided if I had thought everything through and not have moved on first reaction.

I know you guys don't know what I'm talking about, but...

...I owe someone an apology, and I doubt it will be accepted. For good reason.

Tony wrote:
...I owe someone an apology, and I doubt it will be accepted. For good reason.

Go to them. Do it. It is always worth doing, even if its not reciprocated.

You can do it Tony, we're with you all the way.

Thanks you two

Unfortunately, I've been blocked.
I'll just have to live with it

I'm very sorry to hear this Tony. Well, I wish you good luck and hope it gets better for you soon.

soaring_wings wrote:@Terra: I know what you mean. Ontario has one of the highest post-secondary education rates (about 5,000 per year in tuition). Sadly, no provincial government, Liberal or Conservative, will touch education with a ten foot pole, so are rates are stuck constantly inflating. Although last time Conservatives were in power, they tried to axe teachers (decrease amount of teachers and increase class room cap) at the elementary and high school levels and that didn't go too well. People got pissed, so pissed they had to back off.

Firstly, just to clarify, am I right to assume that Canada has a two-party system? Sounds similar to the UK (Labour and Conservative) but if it weren't for the electoral system we used in UK parliament (First Past The Post), the Liberal Democrats would hold a lot more seats and so would a lot of other parties (There's one party for example, which came second in the last European Elections, but have absolutely no seats in UK parliament, as Euro Parliament uses a different electoral system).

Moving back to the subject, it's really sad to see they're afraid to do anything at all, but if I were in charge, I guess I'd be afraid to anger people. How did it even get to that in the first place?

soaring_wings wrote:Now the Liberals are in power...but people are pissed at them for the HST (harmonized sales tax), which extends the provincial tax onto other things like gas and services (like haircuts, dry cleaning, plumbing, etc.). Before these things were only federally taxed. Personally, I'm fine with it because that money will probably go either to health care or education.

Well, I suppose it's all for a good cause, as long as they don't go too much further. Nothing gets people piss*d off like tax rises, just ask America when Bush Sr was in charge.

soaring_wings wrote:I'm mostly annoyed at what a**es the Federal Conservatives are turning themselves into. First Harper (our prime minister) ditches the Kyoto Protocol and then his government has the galls to chide China and India (I think it was) at Copenhagen (I also think it was...this was months ago but I recall being pretty annoyed) for polluting the environment (oh the irony!). Then just today, the Conservatives kicked out one MP from their party for flimsy allegations which both the Ethics Board and the Police report were unfounded. I wouldn't be surprised if they did that because she wasn't doing whatever the asked her to and was more true to her own beliefs. *shakes head in disappointment*

Coperhangen was last october iirc, I recall seeing an announcement that a climate change-sceptic and notorious fascist was one of Britain's 3 representatives for the event from European Parliament around that time but I do also remember something about what the Canadian conservatives did. I mean seriously, wow. Bunch of as*es indeed. It was rather disappointing when hardly anything came out from that conference.

As for that MP, well maybe it wasn't the right party for her. If you join or represent a party, it should be one that you wouldn't be at conflict over when it comes to showing people your true beliefs. People will always have small differences from party policy, it's to be expected but still.

Terra wrote:
Firstly, just to clarify, am I right to assume that Canada has a two-party system? Sounds similar to the UK (Labour and Conservative) but if it weren't for the electoral system we used in UK parliament (First Past The Post), the Liberal Democrats would hold a lot more seats and so would a lot of other parties (There's one party for example, which came second in the last European Elections, but have absolutely no seats in UK parliament, as Euro Parliament uses a different electoral system).

Moving back to the subject, it's really sad to see they're afraid to do anything at all, but if I were in charge, I guess I'd be afraid to anger people. How did it even get to that in the first place?

Yeah, we technically have a two party system, but we have a third party (New Democratic Party - our resident socialists). At the federal level, they have great leverage power when there is a minority government (usually Liberal, NDP doesn't like to work with the conservatives), but we've got the same problem as you describe above. First Past the Post is also our electoral system and the NDP usually get less seats than it deserves. Then there is also the old conservative party, The Progressive Conservatives, which is dissolved right now, but there is a new party in the same vein trying to make a come-back (unsuccessful). Finally, there is the Quebec-only Bloc Quebecois which has a fair share of seats and like the NDP usually has more power during a minority government. BQ tends to use that power to block motions rather than pass them.

NDP has more success at the provincial level where there have been NDP governments elected into Manitoba, BC, and Saskatchewan, etc (even once in Ontario...but that didn't turn out so good). At the provincial leve, there really isn't a two party system so much (but that too depends on the province as well). So basically the fact that we are a federation like the US complicates things a bit. ^^;;;

Terra wrote:Coperhangen was last october iirc, I recall seeing an announcement that a climate change-sceptic and notorious fascist was one of Britain's 3 representatives for the event from European Parliament around that time but I do also remember something about what the Canadian conservatives did. I mean seriously, wow. Bunch of as*es indeed. It was rather disappointing when hardly anything came out from that conference.

I know. And now would be the perfect time because Obama seems interested. Or at least he did last time I read up on US politics. I don't really keep up with it.... ^^;;;;;

Terra wrote:As for that MP, well maybe it wasn't the right party for her. If you join or represent a party, it should be one that you wouldn't be at conflict over when it comes to showing people your true beliefs. People will always have small differences from party policy, it's to be expected but still.

I guess that's true. I'm not really sure what happened. I just know that MPs do get kicked out of their party if they aren't obedient. Happened to a Liberal MP as well (a few years ago), but with the Liberal MP, it was pretty transparent why they were kicking him out. Maybe it's something else. Hopefully that will be in the news because I'm rather curious.

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Just worked a 13hrs shift (1pm-2am.)

That was bad enough but I'm getting sick of a certain co-worker. She needs a good slap across the face. POW!
Not that I actually would.

What did your co-worker do if you don't mind me asking?